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Alchornes New Venture is a lovely strong colt foal out of Doonaveeragh Emma by Colmar.  He has inherited his lovely conformation, presence and good looks from both parents.  He is a very athletic foal with a lovely bold temperament.

Alchornes New Venture

2013 Bay Mare by Golden Hawk out of a Good Times Mare.  Askeaton jumped successfully in International Seven Year Old classes in 2020 and has jumped successfully CSI2* Classes up to 1.35/1.40 in 2021.  She is very bold, scopey and careful.  She is a fantastic mover with a huge powerful canter. She has a lovely temperament, and has been very carefully produced.  

Askeaton

BE Khalissy is a real blood mare. Very straightforward. Very scopey, careful and bold with beautiful paces, and a particularly easy canter.  She is beautifully balanced and can shorten and lengthen very easily. She debuted at International Five Year Old Level with great success, placing at the National Young Horse Championships at Bolesworth and qualifying for the Five Year Old Championships at Hickstead.  She was placed many times at CSIYH1* Vilamoura. In 2021 BE Khalissy has progressed to Six Year Old classes, being clear 2 out of three days at CSIYH1* Chard with a placing in the Grand Prix, and clear all 3 days at CSIYH1* Wellington and 6th in the Grand Prix.

BE Khalissy

Bay mare by Plot Blue out of an Animo mare with lovely paces and big scopey jump. Currently jumping up to 1.20. Very easy in every way.

Billy Arietta

Doonaveeragh Emma is my horse of a lifetime. Bought as an unbroken three year old she jumped Longines Ranking Classes and won Ranking Points. She was a prolific prize winner at 1.40 and was incredibly careful and brave. She was placed in almost every CSI1* Grand Prix that she contested.
She has a wonderful temperament and has a colt foal at foot by Colmar (Colestus). She can only be sold to an absolutely 5 star home, but she would bring star quality to any breeding programme.

Doonaveeragh Emma

Zarnita

Culana Z is a lovely mare by Calvados Z out of a Celana mare.  She jumped well in six year old classes at the Sunshine Tour, but she suffered a career ending injury in her 7th year.
She had two years off and she is now sound enough to make a lovely hack for somebody.  She has an excellent temperament and is easy in every way. 
We have tried to get her in foal unsuccessfully using frozen semen. We have not tried her using fresh or chilled semen.
She has a job here as a hack and companion until March when she will be available for loan to a good home. 

Culana Z

Hurricane Heidi is a very careful, scopey and easy little mare.  Confidently and successfully jumping six year old classes, 1.20's and a few 1.30's. Although she is not very big Heidi has scope to burn, she springs round a 1.30 like a series of cavaletti.  She is forward going and has a big stride, but is very easy to alter and very quick in front. She would be very suitable for someone coming off ponies, or wanting a guaranteed winner for 1.20 and 1.30 international classes.  She is an exquisite mover so would excel in dressage and eventing too. Iin 2021 Heidi has placed consistently in CSI1* classes, placing in every class she contested. She has now been sold.

Hurricane Heidi

Askeaton and BE Khalissy are now fit enough to start working in the school so April has clipped them both and they are looking fantastic. It will be a little while until they are fit enough to start jumping, but they can certainly do some pole work very soon.

I have continued with getting to know Billy Arietta and working out exactly how best to make a real partnership with her.  We had an excellent training session at Hascombe Equestrian. What a lovely arena, with a very good course of modern fences.  I then jumped my first Foxhunter with her at Felbridge. She was a little bit green in the old ring, a new ring for her, but she is so brave and careful and added another clear round to her tally.  She has had no difficulty in making herself at home here, she has got such a lovely character and is beginning to come out of herself in a slightly mischievous way.

I have been so impressed with the fantastic after sales service at the Billy Stud, not only did Arietta come with a very beautiful Billy Stud rug, but also Roger McCrea gave me a hand with jumping her.  It's always great to have an insight into the system of how a horse was produced before you had it, so that you can understand it better, and it was very interesting to watch the other Billy horses and riders schooling at the same time. "There are many ways to skin a cat" and I think that it is always good to look outside one's own system and be very open to the ideas of more successful systems.

The foals at Breen Equestrian have now been weaned and Colin is with his friends in a big barn, feasting on haylage and reclining on the thick straw.  I have collected Emma for the winter, because I love having her at home, and we also have the wonderful Zarnita to keep her company.  We have been lucky to have such a beautiful November, so they are very happy out in the field with lots of grass and two feeds a day.  They had their rugs on last night, and when it gets muddy they will come in at night.

Boringly my knee has stopped getting better and is rather unstable and very painful, especially at night. I'm off to have an MRI scan and crossing my fingers that I can be patched up without too much drastic intervention, at least until after the Sunshine Tour which is my current goal.

Getting Busier

We've had a quiet few weeks with Khalissy and Askeaton both having a holiday, so Mark and I took the chance to spend a week in Bermuda, which was absolutely wonderful, and we had a few days in Portugal with friends on Mark's biennial tennis tour.  It was definitely quite a shock to the system to be back in Askeaton's saddle on Tuesday morning. She's one that needs a quick rodeo on the lunge before you would want to be sitting on top, but she was very good on her first hack. In the afternoon I collected BE Khalissy from her big field on Ashdown Forest, dropped Ludger back to Trevor Breen and collected Doonaveeragh Emma and Zarnita from Breen Equestrian for their well deserved winter TLC. Like a huge equine school run!

Khalissy was back to work on Wednesday morning, clearly quite a shock to her as she found a short hack quite exhausting! We keep them woolly until they need to go in the school as this stops them being too silly as they come back to work.

I took Billy Arietta to Felbridge on Saturday, whiere she jumped another lovely double clear to complete her Newcomers double clears for 2022. I am thrilled with her, and she couldn't have arrived at a better time, and our partnership is beginning to build quickly now. It's always nice to be out and about after a break and see some friends.  It's been great watching Heidi doing so well with Michelle, and Kvint has had some very good successes in Oliva Nova, Spain with Kate as well.

I am still struggling with my knee, I have at least had some physio now, and am icing and lasering it as much as I can to speed up the healing process. It's definitely getting much stronger with some exercises for the ligaments, but it is slow and painful.

It's fun having all the horses back in work, and we can get fitter together.  The aim is to get to a few stay away shows after Christmas and then head down to Spain for the Sunshine Tour in March.

Holidays are over

We are delighted to work with Gillett Cook - feed merchants in Kent who serve the whole of the South East.  Gillett Cook give an excellent service at very competitive prices, stocking all our favourite brands such as Saracen Horse Feeds, Bailey Haylage and Royalspan Shavings, as well as a very comprehensive catalogue of horse essentials such as electrolytes, hoofoil etc

Gillett Cook

Just Equine deliver the very best equestrian brands straight to your door. Kentucky Horsewear, Dy'on, etc.  Really fantastic and helpful service.

Just Equine

Simply the best gloves for any weather. Never, ever slip. Climate controlled, hard wearing, sensitive. You never need another pair of gloves.

MacWet Gloves

Excellent supplements, ranging from very effective calmers, to joint supplements, gut support, etc. Camilla Zanna is very knowledgeable and helpful.

Premier Performance CZ

We started using Protexin Acid Ease in April 2021 with dramatic results on two of our mares, Askeaton and BE Khalissy.  Almost immediately they appeared more comfortable to saddle up, less irritable to the leg and generally happier. We also use Quick Fix when travelling which we have found to be very beneficial on longer, more stressful journeys.

Protexin

Saracen is simply the best horse feed on the market.  We have fed Saracen for 20 years.  They also have excellent, free nutritionist advice.

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